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Pat So's avatar

The west's symptom of failing upwards exists in the UK too... horrible to watch. Short of rising up theres little we can do about it.

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RussCR5187's avatar

You're right. The only power we have left is the power of superior numbers, in the streets, by the millions, for as long as it takes to depose the psychopathic oligarchs currently in charge.

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Janet's avatar

We have something more however . Many are armed in the USA

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Pat So's avatar

Ill direct you to Bidens remarks... "you dont need M15s, you need F15s". I found that sort of quasi-threatening, albeit pretty true, to be astounding.

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kertch's avatar

How may civil wars have you seen in the 20th century were the government used advanced weaponry against their own citizens? When they are used, it's provided by outside forces. The militaries of these nations are usually too polarized to provide a coherent and effective force to use high-tech, logistics-heavy, weaponry, so the fighting is usually down and dirty.

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Pat So's avatar

You have a good point. I was more of the thought of refusing to give labour and thus causing problems that way. Then rising against the internal security forces when they try to force things. It requires resolve though, of which the majority appear to have none.

Things need to get a lot worse here and in the US i think.

But yeh, F16s are useless in guerrilla warfare, unless the country is happy to destroy all their own infrastructure.

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